The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-17

There win be 500 ha"es ut 500 per share,
payable in twenty stlll nents.
At a meeting OF the stockholders and
directors Of the Al gus \ Oil Company the
following gentlen ell W re elected to serve
as officers for the On uin year. President,
A. E. Thornton, OF : lila 81; Vice President,
NJ. Frank, of Cou bui, Miss; Secretary
and Treasurer, William H. Wallace, Au-
gllsta.
Judge Smith, at the Columbus Superior
Court last week, ruled ha5 under the laws
OF Georgia, it is not q ime TO sell intoxi-
eating liquors TO a drum en- man, but that q
man who is guilty of is o Tense is subject
to the same penalty as il he h I'd sold liquors
without a license, which 5 u money forfeit
ure and not crime.
Cobb county farmers are reported as
greatly dissatisfied because neither the State
Fair nor the Piedmont Exposition offer any
premiums this year Tor fine home-bred
stock. As stock raising may well be con-
sldered the most important industry to be
encouraged in the South this discomfort is
founded upon good grounds.
At trial at the Clay County Court the
other day two witnesses were put on the
stand who did not know who made them,
had never heard of heaven nor hell and did
not know whether lie was right or wrong
This is a bad state of affairs. and some of
the attorneys present concluded to quit the
law and go out as evangeliStS.
Miss Kate Robinson, of Louisville, was
taken Saturday morning with a congestive
chill and has been very sick ever since. She
is, however, improving, and her many
friends wish her a speedy recovery Miss
Mlttie Patterson has been extremely i'll for
the past two weeks with typhoid fever 1t
IS thought she cannot live through the day.
1t is now expected that the Atlanta glass
works Will resume operations on Monday
next, the repairs to the heaters and ovens
having been about completed. The com
pany has been much embarrassed by the
delays, but hope now to meet with no
further disaster. They have $4,000 worth
of orders on their books and good force
OF experienced glass blowers ready to begin
work.
The Montezuma Record says there is fine
opening in that town for the following en-
terprises: A large blacksmith or small ma
chime shop to repair gins, engines, etc. a tin
shop where stoves and such things can be
repaired; the establishment of works TO get
out wagon timber and make wagons
steady, sober white man to make and repair
shoes; fruit evaporating establishment,
and wood and lumber yard.
William S. Couch, of Talbotton has a
COW that has shielded part of her hide 1t
came off iii large sections, one or two of
which Mr.. Couch has preserved. The cow
is one OF his finest, and is perfectly healthy
now and giving five gallons of milk per day,
and is in splendid order The shedding of
her hide cannot be accounted for The hair
is growing back over the clear places now
and she is likely to get all right in this par
ticular.
One Reese (colored bought mule from
McDade, of Shady Dale on credit, and
Nash's boy was to work for McDade in pay
ment. The boy Monday, left McDade and
Mpfloda to Naebfs
and was leading him off when Nash ran up
and knocked McDade with hoe on the
arm, lnfiicting two painful wounds He
then knocked McDade down and was about
to strike him with an ak helve when Nc
Dade drew his pistol and fired, the ball TAX
ing effect in the stomach. Nash never bled
but one drop and died in few minutes.
The Atlanta Journal gives this interest
ing account of a remarkable old man:
Uncle Billy Thames, q resident of CLAYTON
county, and well known in Atlanta, was in
the city yesterday for the purpose of having
the necessary papers drawn up to secure his
Mexican war pension. Mr. Thames is a
remarkable old man. He is 90 years of age,
and his oldest child is &C and his youngest
only T.. He has been married twice, and is
the father OF IL children, Is of whom are
now living. His grandchildren number 11S,
his great-grandchlldren 342, and he has quite
number of great great-grandchildren.
The trouble among the brethren in black
at Union Grove has been settled by the
school trustees of the Gainesville sub dis
trict. George Davenport and Mary A. Sat
tawhite both claimed the school. and w N.
Dooley asked for a school at a house a few
hundred yards away. Each teacher had
contract and some of the patrons had signed
all three. careful investigation and count
showed that Davenport had a majority of
patrons and pupils not otherwise pledged,
and the school at Union Grove was given to
him. There being more than 100 pupils
signed to the schools at tho different points
Dooley's school was established at what he
calls the Morris house
just before the hour for beginning the
night service in the Presbyterian church at
Leesburg on Sunday night, while the sexton
was engaged i'll lighting the lamps OF the
chandelier, and after three of them had
been lighted, something gave way and the
chandelier fell to the floor with a crash.
The frame and lamps broke into perhaps a
thousand pieces, and the oil from the lamps
was splashed all over the floor. 1t would
seem, under the circumstances, that fire
hard to overcome would have been started
by the accident, but strange to say the oil
did not ignite. Those who were in the
church at the time and witnessed the acct
dent say it was miraculous escape from a
big fire.
Inc SlXth Battalion Georgia militia,
which defends the western border at Column
bus, has been allowed by the Adjutant Gen
eral to retain Calling gun in its possession
as an attachment to its infantry. The bat
talon wishes to drill a detachment of its
troops in Calling exercises, and has applied
for sabres for the men detailed to serve the
gun. Adjutant Kell Tuesday drew on the
States military supplies for the purpose of
granting the request, but was unable to find
anything but lot of antedeluvian speci-
mems well-nigh eaten up with rust. He
viii reply that no sabres are on hand fit TO
issue and filed the battalion's application
till the State can obtain her share of the
new United States appropriation in July,
which amounts TO about 81, 900.
Talbot county is preparing for big bar
bccue for some time in July, the date is not
yet fixed. II will be a military, agricul-
tural and railroad barbecue. A meeting
was held Friday last and u committee was
appointed to take charge Of it, The com
panies composing the Sixth Georgia bat
TALON will be invited Arrangements will
be made with the Central railroad to run
out a special train from Columbus on the
morning of the day Of the barbecue TO bring
out the soldiers and all who desire to attend
The military there will invite some distin-
guisied military man to speak for them,
and the farmers with their orators will be
ON hand Judge Herman of New York